Director's Book Club (Miramar Branch), 30 May | Event in Miramar | AllEvents

Director's Book Club (Miramar Branch)

Broward County Library

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Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 03:00 pm

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Miramar Branch Library and Education Center

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Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm (EDT)

Miramar Branch Library And Education Center

2050 Civic Center Place (by The City Of Miramar), Florida, Miramar, United States

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Director's Book Club (Miramar Branch)
Join Broward County Library Director Allison Grubbs in discussing thought-provoking books. Read the book or listen to the audiobook, then get together with Allison and others to talk about it.

May: "Everything I Learn, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" by Curtis Chin

This “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers).

Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city’s spiraling misfortunes; and where—between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions—he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself.

Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung’s, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy’s childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him—and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.

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Director's Book Club (Miramar Branch), 30 May | Event in Miramar | AllEvents
Director's Book Club (Miramar Branch)
Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 03:00 pm